diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e3f073ba24ff3..995becdf19bff 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ UpgradeLog*.XML
 # NuGet
 packages
 packages/repositories.config
+testPackages
 
 # Mac development
 .DS_Store
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/PublishNugetPackageTests.proj b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/PublishNugetPackageTests.proj
index 6cfc7e692f229..0863cb32e7793 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/PublishNugetPackageTests.proj
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/PublishNugetPackageTests.proj
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 		<LibrarySourceFolder Condition="'$(PublishTestProjects)' == 'true'">$(LibraryToolsFolder)\Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks\Build.Tasks.Tests\TestPublishProjects</LibrarySourceFolder>
 		<LibraryNugetPackageFolder>$(LibraryRoot)\packages</LibraryNugetPackageFolder>
 		<FxTargetList>portable;net40;net45</FxTargetList>
-		<NuGetPublishingSource Condition="'$(NuGetPublishingSource)' == ''">$(LibraryRoot)\packages\nugetPublish</NuGetPublishingSource>
+		<NuGetPublishingSource Condition="'$(NuGetPublishingSource)' == ''">$(LibraryRoot)\testPackages\nugetPublish</NuGetPublishingSource>
 		<NuGetKey>1234</NuGetKey>
 	</PropertyGroup>
 	<PropertyGroup>
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@
   -->
   <!-- Use Case:
 		msbuild build.proj /p:PublishTestProjects=true /t:Publish_MultipleSelectedPackage /p:Scope=MultiProjectSingleSln /p:PackageName="Sdk RP1_MgmtPlane"
+    msbuild build.proj /t:Build;Package;Publish /p:PublishTestProjects=true /p:Scope=MultiProjectSingleSln /p:PackageName="Sdk RP1_MgmtPlane"
 	-->
 	<Target Name="Publish_MultipleSelectedPackage" DependsOnTargets="MultiSelectedPackagesInit;$(TestInit)">
 		<Message Text="'Publish_MultipleSelectedPackage' completed"/>
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectMultiSln/CSProjTestPublish/Class1.cs b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectMultiSln/CSProjTestPublish/Class1.cs
index 2e963da0dd3f3..687a47706fd64 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectMultiSln/CSProjTestPublish/Class1.cs
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectMultiSln/CSProjTestPublish/Class1.cs
@@ -23,5 +23,7 @@ namespace CSProjTestPublish
 {
     public class Class1
     {
+        public void TestMethod1() { }
+
     }
 }
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectMultiSln/NetCoreTestPublish/Class1.cs b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectMultiSln/NetCoreTestPublish/Class1.cs
index 7651587b29a9e..56c423b39f310 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectMultiSln/NetCoreTestPublish/Class1.cs
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectMultiSln/NetCoreTestPublish/Class1.cs
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ namespace NetCoreTestPublish
     public class Class1
     {
         public Class1()
-        {
+        {   
         }
+
+        public void TestMethod1() { }
     }
 }
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP1_DataPlane/Class1.cs b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP1_DataPlane/Class1.cs
index 99f23ae058791..bc51e2471610c 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP1_DataPlane/Class1.cs
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP1_DataPlane/Class1.cs
@@ -25,5 +25,7 @@ public class Class1
         public Class1()
         {
         }
+
+        public void TestMethod1() { }
     }
 }
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP1_MgmtPlane/Class1.cs b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP1_MgmtPlane/Class1.cs
index 71930fcc111f3..b5c897da8d70b 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP1_MgmtPlane/Class1.cs
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP1_MgmtPlane/Class1.cs
@@ -25,5 +25,7 @@ public class Class1
         public Class1()
         {
         }
+
+        public void TestMethod1() { }
     }
 }
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP2_Sdk/RP2_SDK.Test/Class1.cs b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP2_Sdk/RP2_SDK.Test/Class1.cs
index 01500e3864449..e73f980af29af 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP2_Sdk/RP2_SDK.Test/Class1.cs
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP2_Sdk/RP2_SDK.Test/Class1.cs
@@ -25,5 +25,7 @@ public class Class1
         public Class1()
         {
         }
+
+        public void TestMethod1() { }
     }
 }
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP2_Sdk/Sdk/Class1.cs b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP2_Sdk/Sdk/Class1.cs
index dd343b59de0df..f7e947e488617 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP2_Sdk/Sdk/Class1.cs
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Build.Tasks.Tests/TestPublishProjects/MultiProjectSingleSln/RP2_Sdk/Sdk/Class1.cs
@@ -25,5 +25,7 @@ public class Class1
         public Class1()
         {
         }
+
+        public void TestMethod1() { }
     }
 }
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/FilterOutAutoRestLibraries.cs b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/FilterOutAutoRestLibraries.cs
index 49a2faf15a5ab..6cfdae1bde6ed 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/FilterOutAutoRestLibraries.cs
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/FilterOutAutoRestLibraries.cs
@@ -31,10 +31,12 @@ public class FilterOutAutoRestLibraries : Task
         public string AutoRestMark { get; set; }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Name of packages that needs to be published. Currently for ease of user, it will be space delimited list of NetCore projects
+        /// Name of packages that needs to be published. Currently for ease for the user, it will be space delimited list of NetCore projects
         /// Non-NetCore projects cannot be published more than one package due to MSBuild limitation as well as our existing architecture of nuget.proj files
-        /// Plus once we are very limited set of non-netCore projects, so the effort is not worth. Worse case, each job to publish 1 package at a time
-        /// E.g. /p:PackageName="PackageName1 PackageName2" string can be passed to publish PacakgeName1 and PackageName2
+        /// Plus as we have very limited set of non-netCore projects, so the effort is not worth it. Worse case for publishing non-netCore projects, each job 
+        /// to publish 1 package at a time
+        /// 
+        /// E.g. for NetCore projects /p:PackageName="PackageName1 PackageName2" string can be passed to publish PacakgeName1 and PackageName2
         /// </summary>
         public string NugetPackagesToPublish { get; set; }
 
@@ -56,14 +58,9 @@ public override bool Execute()
             
             List<string> nPkgsList = null;
 
-            if (NugetPackagesToPublish != null)
+            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(NugetPackagesToPublish))
             {
-                NugetPackagesToPublish = NugetPackagesToPublish.Trim();
-
-                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(NugetPackagesToPublish))
-                {   
-                    nPkgsList = NugetPackagesToPublish.Split(new char[] { ' ', '\t' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).ToList<string>();
-                }
+                nPkgsList = NugetPackagesToPublish.Split(new char[] { ' ', '\t' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).ToList<string>();
             }
 
             foreach (ITaskItem solution in AllLibraries)
@@ -102,7 +99,9 @@ public override bool Execute()
                         string projectDirName = Path.GetFileName(projectDirPath);
                         string match = nPkgsList.Find((pn) => pn.Equals(projectDirName, System.StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
                         if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(match))
+                        {
                             nonNetCoreAutoRestLibraries.Add(solution);
+                        }
                     }
                     else
                     {
@@ -161,6 +160,15 @@ public override bool Execute()
                 }
             }
 
+            if(nPkgsList != null)
+            {
+                if (nPkgsList.Any<string>())
+                {
+                    string pkgNames = string.Join(",", nPkgsList);
+                    Log.LogMessage(MessageImportance.High, "Trying to publish packages: {0}", pkgNames);
+                }
+            }
+
             Log.LogMessage(MessageImportance.High, "We have found {0} non netcore autorest libraries.", nonNetCoreAutoRestLibraries.Count);
             Log.LogMessage(MessageImportance.High, "We have found {0} netcore autorest libraries.", netCoreAutoRestLibraries.Count);
             Log.LogMessage(MessageImportance.High, "we have found {0} Non autorest libraries.", others.Count);
diff --git a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks.csproj b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks.csproj
index 15ceafc541958..7a2647f6b879f 100644
--- a/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks.csproj
+++ b/tools/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Build.Tasks.csproj
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <None Include="Build.Tasks.Tests\BuildTasksTest.BuildProjectTemplates.proj" />
+    <None Include="Build.Tasks.Tests\PublishNugetPackageTests.proj">
+      <SubType>Designer</SubType>
+    </None>
     <None Include="packages.config" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />